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MindFreedom Hunger Strike
Up one levelMindFreedom held an historic hunger strike in 2003 that won international media publicity. The simple demand to the psychiatric system was this: Produce scientific evidence about why a single model -- the medical theory of 'chemical imbalances' and pills -- ought to so overwehlmingly dominate mental health care as it does today.
- Hunger Strike News Release & Fact Sheet by Erin — last modified 2008-01-16 13:25
- Media Coverage by Erin — last modified 2008-01-16 13:25
- Read what the press had to say about the 2003 hunger strike.
- Hunger Strike Debate by Erin — last modified 2008-01-16 13:25
- The original statement by the Fast for Freedom in Mental Health to the American Psychiatric Association, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and the US Office of the Surgeon General sparked an important exchange of letters and statements on the validity of the biochemical model of mental illness.
